Failure - the Podcast
A podcast about innovation and failure, mostly in business. Visit us at https://innovationblab.com.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Chatbots Gone Wild!
Your teen’s staring at the phone, again. Wonder what’s going through their head. Let’s have a listen: Okay, so like... what could possibly go wrong? I’m spilling my guts to a therapist. We’re conne…
It's Not an Emergency
After a brief hiatus, during which the team from Failure - the Podcast/Innovation Blab/5-Minute Update contemplated their umbilici (think, M.C. Escher), we found ourselves at the Yale University Scho…
NonProfitPalooza
Today’s episode, NonProfitPalooza, might better be titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Overachievers.” Our guests are Marissa Fayer and Brody Galloway, both of whom founded and actively r…
Corporate Espionage
This episode of the "5-Minute Update" extends our discussion of ethically-informed licensing to enterprise software customer data. That's a mouthful. Let us explain.
As our dedicated listener(s) wil…
Buyer Beware
Whether for autonomous vehicles or “smart” consumer products, government regulation may be too little and too late when it comes to right-sizing the growth of AI from a risk/benefit perspective. Can…
Public Health Reflux ... er ... Redux
We’d thought we’d learned from a prior guest to this august podcast that Big Pharma could provide cures for more diseases, if only flaws in America’s third-party payor health care system could be fix…
Drugged Out
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast (a/k/a Innovation Blab) as they stumble upon the dark underbelly of Big Pharma. Our guest, Imran Nasrullah, has 25+ years of experience in the industry, spec…
Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 2: The Singularity is Nigh.
Who knew?
Join the Innovation Blab (a/k/a Failure - the Podcast) in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Singularity is Nigh.” Our special guests are … …
Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 1: Broken Down Cars.
Who knew?
Join Innovation Blab/Failure - the Podcast in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Singularity is Nigh.” Our special guests are … well … speci…
Nasty, Brutish and Short
Catch them on a good day, and we suspect that many an entrepreneur would say that bootstrapping a business is like a bowl of cherries, pits and all. Leaving aside the independently wealthy, that mor…
The Question
Ask an entrepreneur: “what keeps you up at night?” They’ve heard The Question before and have an answer at the ready. But they’ll make you wait through a feigned moment of reflection before they la…
Blab, yes. Innovation, not so much.
Election fever. With all the news, who can avoid it? Not a news ticker scrolls by without a mention of Biden's age, Trump's trials and RFK's betrayals. We're not immune to it. So when a schedule…
Teaching Innovation
Join us in a discussion with Diane Bouis, director of MedTech Innovator, the world’s largest life science startup accelerator program.
Make Innovation Great Again!
Not that we have a vested interest, but we’d suggest that Joe Biden make a go at it with a blue baseball cap sporting the acronym MIGA. You know, “make innovation great again!” Speaking of innovati…
The University Perspective
Welcome to Innovation Blab, a new series of podcasts (…keep fingers crossed…) offering the B-side to Failure - the Podcast. Yes, Mark will be back, and we hope to put up both Innovation and Failure …
And, now, for something completely different....
It's not often the team from Failure - the Podcast gets serious.
Sure, there was the time Mark stole an air mask from Jet Blue and hooked it to a canister of helium. He was impersonating Marjorie T…
Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz ...
No, it's not the ice cream. It's the podcast. This one, and you can be sure it's in bad taste. But, hey, don't be too disappointed. Before reality sunk in, we did offer you the briefest glimmer of …
Fun with Numbers
Sounds promising: fun with numbers. If not the mathematicians and physicists, certainly the accountants might get something from this podcast. And, if not them, the actuaries will have a field day…
Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three ...
It took a little doing, but the team from Failure - the Podcast think they found the first use of that magical phrase "testing, testing one, two, three.....". No, it wasn't in 2010, when Biden droppe…